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Miles Weinberger, MD
319.356.3485
miles-weinberger@uiowa.edu
Dr. Weinberger is Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Pediatric Allergy & Pulmonary Division and the Cystic Fibrosis Center. He is trained and Board Certified in both Allergy & Clinical Immunology and Pediatric Pulmonology.
He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. He received pediatric training at the University of California in San Francisco.Dr. Weinberger has authored over 170 manuscript publications, 30 book chapters and monographs, and a book entitled Managing Asthma. He has been an invited speaker more than 300 times throughout the United States and in 19 foreign countries. He has authored editorial commentaries on the subject of U.S. health care in the Des Moines Register and the Iowa City Press-Citizen.
Jess Fiedorowicz, MD
mkejess@yahoo.com
Dr. Fiedorowicz is a board-certified psychiatrist and clinical investigator.
He is a graduate of Marquette University and obtained and M.D. with Honors in Research from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He then completed a transitional year internship at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI followed by a psychiatry residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he served as a chief resident. He concluded a fellowship in the clinical neurobiology at the University of Iowa, where he has also received a master’s degree in clinical investigation. His work focuses on excess mortality in mental illness with a focus on suicide and vascular disease.
Local Unions Endorsing HR676
- Hawkeye Labor Council, Cedar Rapids, IA
- Southern Iowa Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Iowa State News
By David E. Drake | Des Moines Register
As a physician I am regularly faced with patients who have inadequate or no health insurance. A person may call my office to discover that their health "insurance" does not cover mental health or they have such a high deductible they can't afford to see me. In both cases my office may refer the person to a clinic with a sliding scale, to the same place where I might refer someone who had no insurance at all.
Wow! The Des Moines Register previously has supported single payer reform, but now they seem to be broadening their position by supporting a publicly owned and operated national health service - socialized medicine! Not only should everyone be covered by a universal, taxpayer-financed risk pool, but that pool should be used to pay for integrated health care - a system "just like VA health care."
Des Moines Register
Dr. Jess Fiedorowicz, a University of Iowa psychiatrist: He was not won over. Fiedorowicz favors a single-payer health care system, in which government insurance would cover everyone.
By JESS FIEDOROWICZ | Des Moines Register
The disclosure and management of conflict of interests is indeed an important concern for those with an ethical and fiduciary responsibility to act in the best interests of others. Physicians have a responsibility to act in the best interests of their patients. Elected officials have a responsibility to act in the best interests of those they represent. We should be pleased Grassley has brought up this very timely, relevant issue.
By Kay Henderson | Reuters
Dr. Jess Fiedorowicz, a psychiatrist at the University of Iowa Hospitals who was with the protest group, told the meeting a majority of Americans support a "single payer" or government-run national health insurance program.
"Can we put it on the table for discussion?" Fiedorowicz asked Nancy-Ann De Parle, director of the White House Office on Health Reform.